Sidewalk denizens stood dazed and confused outside of Norwood’s suddenly shuttered Mosholu Station post office at 3445 Jerome Ave. this week. Four fliers taped to the location’s security screen informed them of the post office’s temporary closure, made necessary due to "structural damage" that required immediate repair.

A funky concoction of noises emanate from the windows of a squat building between the St. Brendan’s Church and school on East 207th Street in Norwood, indicating an air of constant activity.

A group of tenants in a nightmare North Fordham building is seeking the removal of their landlord.

Last Thursday, about 30 tenants from 2710 Bainbridge Ave. along with Assemblyman Jose Rivera, attorneys from the Urban Justice Center, and members of the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition (NWBCCC), held a rally after they filed a lawsuit to have their building management transferred to an independent administrator known as a 7A.

Community groups and elected officials rallied at the Bronx County Courthouse on Tuesday afternoon to underscore the overcrowding problems in Bronx schools and renew the push for new schools at the Kingsbridge Armory’s annex buildings.

Local elected officials joined representatives of the borough’s 12 community boards on Monday afternoon to protest Mayor Bloomberg’s proposed cuts that would cut funding to each board from $200,000 to $186,517. That amounts to a nearly 7 percent decrease.

On Monday, April 12, the New York City Charter Revision Commission, set up by Mayor Bloomberg to review the city’s rules and regulation, will take testimony from Bronx residents.

Bronx Congressman Eliot Engel recently announced that Lehman College’s Mathematics Achievement with Teachers of High-need Urban Populations (MATH-UP) program will receive a $7.6 million grant from the Department of Education’s Teacher Quality Grant Program. Engel, a former educator, says the grant will improve education in the Bronx by better preparing teachers for the job.

Bronx Congressman Jose E. Serrano recently praised the student loan reform bill that was included within President Obama’s Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Serrano, who was present at the signing of health care reform, considers the act a significant step toward making higher education a more realistic goal for families and children in the Bronx.

A listing of public and community meetings for all our readers in the northwest Bronx and beyond.